...kijimunaa is representative of the spiritual power of trees in the Ryukyu belief system.
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...who went out of style after Christian missionaries came to Ireland and the belief faded into memory. Some think that Crom Dubh has become the Irish faery 'th
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...they often became seen as sorcerous figures. This may be influenced by the belief that millers yearly drown a drunk passerby as an offering to the vodianoi.
Ivanits, Linda. Russian Folk Belief. M.E. Sharpe, Inc: New York, 1989.
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'''Tlaloc''', also known as '''Nuhualpilli''', in Aztec belief, was the god of rain and fertility. He was greatly feared among the Aztecs,
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In Melanesian belief (San Christoval, Ulawa, southern Mala island), '''adaro''' is the the bad p
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...men to honor them, as snow is believed to be brought by the sky women. One belief has it that the thunder and lightning of springtime are brought on by Sky W
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...can, perhaps, be best explained by the essential reality of the underlying belief to those who held it, from the heathen period through the time of our own g
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...in the afterlife. One of the most prominent and well-known aspects of this belief is the concept of jigoku, or "hell." The idea of jigoku plays an important
The belief in jigoku also played an important role in the development of the Japanese
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...mpel people to go out to them in the dark forest to be devoured. A similar belief is found in Abyssinia.
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The Dahomeans have essentially the same belief, but they call this type of witch the [[asiman]].
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...vac was widespread in Bosnia, western Serbia, Šumadija and in Kosovo. Also belief in Drekavac and similar creatures (Bukavac) was well spread in Vojvodina an
...ften used as a child scare, in a similar way a bogeyman is in the West but belief in it has faded, and Baba Roga, which more closely resembles western bogeym
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...surrection. Upholders of philosophical rationalism also generally consider belief in ghosts to be a superstition. Still, the fear of ghosts is widespread eve
The belief in and fear of ghosts and other supernatural beings, such as spirits and [[
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''Neuntoter'' translates as ''killer in the night'' given the belief that it takes nine full days for the vampire to develop in his coffin or to
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The belief in vampire fruit is similar to the belief that any inanimate object left outside during the night of a full moon will
:The belief in vampires of plant origin occurs among Gs. [Gypsies] who belong to the Mo
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